Word: nodded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute-long nod to God-or to production in the ball-bearing works-was calculated to give the least offense to the smallest number. Even so, it barely got by. Out of 15 committee members only eight voted for it; the Soviet Union, France and two others abstained; three members had stayed away from the meeting...
...Until I read Lysenko's speech," he says, with a nod to the party, "I had not recognized the idealistic character of Mendel's formulation of his results." Lysenko, he argues, opened Haldane's eyes to a new refinement of the truth: "What is inherited is not a set of characters, but the capacity for reacting to the environment in such a way that, in a particular environment, particular characters are developed." Genes "exhibit a good deal of stability in their reproduction," Haldane writes, but not "complete stability, or evolution would be impossible." Parting company with Lysenko...
...mail was pouring in, and the bobby-sox clubs ("The Girls Who Give In When Billy Gives Out") were forming. Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there...
...Ephmen are given the nod...
...work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned to one of his tall G.I. guards, held up seven fingers and asked: "Sieben?" The guard confirmed his question with a brief nod and gently steered him from the room...